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May recap

The original post was lost to computer complications and time, here’s my best guess after a few months of stress.

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Tagged A Girl Called Echo, Ark Land, Brent Hayward, Broken Sun Broken Moon, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, Childhood, ChiZine, Courtney Loberg, Drew Hayden Taylor, Jess Sheridan, Kelly Bastow, Lake Aquitaine Park, Momento Mori, My Favourite Girl That I Never See, Rattray Marsh, Red River Press, Scott A Ford, The Night Wanderer, Thinking Horror, TO Comics, Wax & Wane, Wayward Sisters

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Events, New Things, Painting & Gaming, Peanut, The house has taken, Thoughts

December Recap

Same old, same old.

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Tagged 77434, bad renovation stories, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiZine, Conservative means hate, Folklore: The Affliction, French cooking with your kid, Other Minds, podcasts, Tablescapes, Victorian Christmas Cards, Wiz Kids, Yeti Chieftain

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May recap

More delays to renovation…

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Tagged 10th anniversary, Adventurers League, Adventurescapes, Avengers, Brins D'eternite, Caitlin R Kiernan, Centipede Press, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiZine, Cooks Illustrated, Creatures of Will and Temper, Daphne DuMaurier, Dwarf Butcher, Election, Ellen Datlow, Fester and Burn, Grady Hendrix, Guild Adept, Houses Under the Sea, Infinity War, Marvel Universe, Misogyny, Monstrous, My Best Friend's Exorcism, Over the Edge, pancakes, Reaper, Reaper 77084, Reaper 77087, Reaper 77088, Reaper 77460, recipe, Ruins of Matolo, Ruins of Mezro, Star Wars, The Box Podcast, Townsfolk, Townsfolk inkeeper, Townsfolk mom & kids, Townsolk grandma, Wiz Kids

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November recap

Books, books, so many books. And I don’t even have pictures for all of them. Continue reading →

Tagged Ariane Gelinas, Au rendez-vous des courtisans glaces, Carl Rocheleau, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, Daniel Sernine, Dark Entries, Dunham's Manor, Erin Bow, Frederick Durand, Genevieve Blouin, Helen Marshall, Horrificorama, Isabelle Lauzon, Joe Pulver, Le sabbat des ephemeres, les six brumes, Lesley Livingston, Michele Laframboise, Nadia Bulkin, Petits Demons, Pierre-Alexandre Bonin, Resplendant Troswoman Below, Robert Aickman, Salon du Livre, Scion of the Fox, Scorpion Riders, She Said Destroy, SM Beiko, The Valiant, Undertow Publications, Year's Best Weird Fiction

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September Recap – More Weird Than Lost Books Arriving On My Doorstep

This month was mostly about frantically getting ready for renovations. I still have a month to sort through a full basement of stuff that’s been sitting around for 8 years. I did get a few books.

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Tagged 1896 Cinema, AG Pasquella Books, Alex Smith, Author Signatures, Caitlin R Kiernan, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiZine, Creeping Waves, David Nickle, Dear Sweet Filthy World, Dim Shores, Gemma Files, Gord Zajac, High Strange Horror, Hive, iD, Joe Pulver Sr., Jonathan Raab, Kelp Queen Press, Looming Low, Machines disguised as books, Madeleine Ashby, Matthew M Bartlett, NecronomiCon Providence, Pac'N Heat, Robert I Stava, Spooklights, The Devil's Engine, The Hillbilly Moonshine Massacre, the Weird Fiction Family Album Coloring Book. Muzzleland Press, Volk, Walk on the Weird Side, Winterbourne, Yves Tourigny

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Venera Dreams

Claude Lalumiere‘s Objects of Worship was the first ChiZine title I ever read (I eventually interned there, but not before I read many more of their books), and I’ve tried to read everything he’s done since (I chose Objects… because I had previously read – and loved – an anthology he edited called Montreal Dreams). This past weekend he had a launch event at Toronto’s Bakka Phoenix bookstore for his new book, Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment.

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Tagged Bakka Phoenix, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, ChiZine, Claude Lalumiere, Guernica Editions, Objects of Worship, Venera Dreams

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July recap

No purchases this month (ZERO books!), but a few fun things happened despite me being sick for half of it.

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Tagged Allie & Lara, baseball, Blue Jays, Bones 4, Business BFFs podcast, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, Elastica, Flaner, fun with baseball stats, Fundraising, Looming Low, Our Lady of Dog Vomit, Passing Through, Paul Moehringer, Pyramid Rating System, Reaper, Test Patterns, the Beach, The Outer Dark, The Outer Dark Symposium, Toronto walking tours

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June Monthly Recap

Not much happened – the rain and humidity laid me out pretty thoroughly. Same with allergies, which have been worse than ever before.

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Tagged Alectryomancer & Other Weird Tales, Anya Martin, Beneath, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, Christopher Slatsky, Dim Shores, Do Make Say Think, Dunham's Manor, Hailu Mergia, Heavy Metlloid Music, home gardening, Jesse Locke, Jordan Krall, Kristi DeMeester, Life is Easy, Looming Low, Michael Cisco, Nicole Cushing, Passage to the Dreamtime, proto-punk, Simply Saucer, The Sadist's Bible, weird fiction, Xnoybis

Cats, Events, New Things, The house has claimed, Thoughts

April nonsense

Books. There were lots of those.

A ton of other stuff happened too. More about that after the break

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Tagged Agents of Dreamland, Alan Crawley, Alistair Rennie, Anagram, Andrew M. Reichert, Baskin, Bleak Warrior, Borderland, Brutal Knights, Caitlin R Kiernan, Canadian Horror, Cemetery Dance, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, Dan Burke, David Nickle, Deadly Snakes, Don Hutchison, Gemma Files, Indra Das, Infinitesoundvlog, King Khan and the Shrines, Mike Carey, Muzzleland Press, Northern Frights, Out of the Barrens, Postscripts to Darkness, Robert J Wiersema, Robert Knowlton, Seven Crow Stories, Silver Dollar Room, Suckerpunch, T2 Trainspotting, Tesseracts 13, The Devourers, The Girl with All the Gifts, The Outer Dark, The Outer Dark Symposium, The Void, Weird Luck Tales

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Birthday Week

As an adult, I’ve always tried to minimize my birthday. Not celebrate it, not make an event of it, and most importantly not get stuff I don’t really want but have to be polite about and then figure out what to do with. I don’t really have a choice, though, because my in-laws like to celebrate, and for the last 5 years or so, April has involved a party for 3 birthdays. This year has been mostly awful so far, so it’s a nice distraction for once. Continue reading →

Tagged Awai, Birthdays, Chiaroscuro Reading Series, Dead Girls Don't, Mags Storey, Prairie Girl, Sloane Tea, Toronto International Spring of Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, vegan food